I work with a client that migrated their infrastructure to Microsoft. In order to connect to their Linux Server, I now have to Remote Desktop to their Azure Virtual Desktop thing. I’m not pleased but it’s out of my control.

I tried remmina freerdp but doesn’t seem to support that Azure thing, there doesn’t seem to be an option to add the workspace.

Any recommendations or do I have to setup a virtual machine just for this? :/ Cheers

  • cizra
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    1 month ago

    If your local machine is not reachable from the internet, you could set up the cheapest VPS - you can get a free one for 12 months at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/#all-free-services Connect from your destination machine (the firewalled one) to the VPS, and set up a reverse tunnel. For example, drop this into your ~/.ssh/config on the destination machine:

    Host rtun
        Hostname something
        RemoteForward 1234 localhost:22

    tmux new-ses 'while sleep 1; do ssh rtun; done'

    Then configure your local machine to connect to destination via the jumpbox:

    Host vps
        Hostname something

Host destination
        Hostname localhost
        Port 1234
        ProxyJump vps

    ssh destination should work now.

    Make sure to use SSH key auth, not passwords, and never transport secret keys off-machine. It’s easier to wipe and recreate a VPS, if you lose keys, than to explain to Security folks how you were the donkey that enabled the breach.